Msyore/Mysuru, Sept. 21 -- Audience can now watch bouts under safe roof; Nirmithi Kendra takes up development works at a cost of Rs. 5 crore

Finally, years of wait for a safe spectator gallery at D. Devaraj Urs Multipurpose Stadium at Karnataka Exhibition Authority, venue for Dasara Wrestling Competition, is over with authorities giving new shape for the stadium.

Every year spectators were forced to watch the wrestling bouts drenched owing to rainfall without proper roof. This was followed by several requests being submitted to the authorities concerned to provide proper roofing at spectator gallery. The development works at wrestling akhada is being taken simultaneously with the works undertaken at Dasara Exhibition Grounds.

The works...